About the Book:

The first serious study on the paintings of the female icon and one of the most celebrated British artists, Tracey Emin Dame Tracey Emin DBE is known for her frank, confessional style and for transforming her inner world into intimate works of art. She has become one of the most celebrated artists in the world, a household name, and part of the Art establishment. Her practice includes painting, drawing, film, photography, sewn appliqué, sculpture, and neon, but in recent years she has focused on painting.

Inspired by artists Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch, her paintings are provocative, confrontational, and vulnerable. They are at once deeply personal and universal, and it’s for this reason her work is revered around the world, and she has become an international icon. The book features more than 300 images of Emin’s gestural and expressive figurative paintings, from the 1990s to today, as well as a conversation with close friend David Dawson and an essay by Australian writer Jennifer Higgie.

Made in close collaboration with the artist, this special book is the first publication dedicated to Emin’s emotive paintings and showcases her soulful work like never before.

About the Author:

Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer who lives in London. Her new book The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World is published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, by Hachette in Australia and Pegasus Books in the USA. Jennifer is the inaugural editor of the National Gallery of Australia's new publication The Annual and the host of the NGA’s new podcast Artists's Artists.In July 2023, the exhibition she curated ‘Thin Skin’ – a survey of contemporary and historical painting – opened at the Monash University Museum of Art in Melbourne.